> > But main stream distros these days have a lot more tools available to them > > than the LiveCD can even dream of (simple technological fact due to the > > storage capacity of the medium; CD/DVD versus HD) and typically include a > > very simple means of installing what tools you don't have. Installing > > mdadm on the LiveCD two years ago was an outright pain compared to apt-get > > install mdadm. > > This speaks of other possibilities that could arise. The current CD can > already be modified to boot from a USB drive or other HD. If we move to > package management on the CD (mostly for the sake of development > purposes) it wouldn't be difficult to allow users to add other > non-standard (but pre-built and prepared) packages on request.
That's a good idea. Since the two systems covered by the LPI are the debian apt-get way and the redhat rpm way, I'd like to suggest both of those. Since running two package management systems is a software engineering nightmare, and redhat is (unfortunately) the prevailant commericially used system, it would probably be best to go with rhat. Unless you actually know of a simple way to get both going on there :) And the most helpful package is going to be an update to the source directory for newer released versions of source. Dennis Stout -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
